. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . sverse processes Length of 8 anterior sacrals 2-531 3-74-71-211 1-2307-50-50-30-82-23-82-02-01-00-72 00-62-03-5 Fis. 3. Posterior. DESCPaPTioisr of Plates X.—(Cnemiornis calcitrans.)Plate X.—Restored skeleton one-fifth nat. size, from a —Skull, nat. size. Pig. 1. Side. Fig. 2. —Fig. 1. Sternum, front —Fig. 1. Sternum, side view. 2. Inner side of right costal , 4th, and 5th i-ibs of right and 7th Iibs of left sternal rib
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . sverse processes Length of 8 anterior sacrals 2-531 3-74-71-211 1-2307-50-50-30-82-23-82-02-01-00-72 00-62-03-5 Fis. 3. Posterior. DESCPaPTioisr of Plates X.—(Cnemiornis calcitrans.)Plate X.—Restored skeleton one-fifth nat. size, from a —Skull, nat. size. Pig. 1. Side. Fig. 2. —Fig. 1. Sternum, front —Fig. 1. Sternum, side view. 2. Inner side of right costal , 4th, and 5th i-ibs of right and 7th Iibs of left sternal rib of left r. XIV.—Figs. 1-3. —Figs. 1-2. 3-4 5-6. Tarso-metatarse. Erratum.—The words Weight and Bulk in the table on page 76 should be trans-posed, the bulk of the bone being reduced to the same number in each case forcomparison. The bulk was ascertained by immersing the bone in water aftercoating it with a film of wax, and ascertaining the disijlacement by weight. T PANS. N,Z. INSTITUTE. Jj3. cLrL. el liih. ;nemiornis calcitrans. Hector.—On Delphiniis foreteri. 85 Art. XIV.—Kotes on Delphinus forsteri. By James Hector, , \_Read lefore the Wellington Philosoj^hlcal Society, 22nd Sejjfember, 1873.]In Marcht last a specimen of DeljjJdnus forsteri, wliicli was cast up on thebeach at Lyall Bay, gave me, for the first time, an opportunity of obseivingits extei^nal characters and of having a sketch made, which does not, however,differ sufficiently from that copied last year after Forster to make it worthreproduction (Vol. V., PI. 3). Unfortunately the colouring had faded, so thatthe whole skin was of a dark tint, and the spots on the fins, mentioned byForster, could not be distinguished. The sknll, however, since prepared agi-eesexactly with that which I have already described as belonging to ForstersDolphin, although the drawing given in the last volume of Transactions,of the first skull I had, doe
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